The WiPHoF is a low-budget affair and lacks the funds to implement a rigorous online voting process. By the same token, however, there’s very little incentive for anyone to want to rig it. If attempts to subvert the voting system have undermined the efforts for a public vote, then, one question that raises itself is whether those efforts might represent an attempt to suppress the event itself, rather than induct a given candidate.

– Most Full Tilt users from the pre-Black Friday era have received their refunds, but 1500 claimants will be left empty-handed. One imagines that some false claims would have been filed, and there were several technical requirements which needed to be met for a claim to be valid, so how many of these rejected claims actually deserved a refund is hard to determine.

– Sweden’s C Darwin2 is back on top of the online leaderboards. and his real identity is now known: Simon Mattsson. Mattsson has been trying for the last couple of years to break into the live high-stakes tournament circuit; although he has yet to manage a win, if his online performance is any indication, it’s only a matter of time.

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